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Operating Theater

Date: 1902
Description: Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
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Catalog Shopper

Date: 11 20 1988
Description: Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase.
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Union Election

Date: 02 06 1973
Description: Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.
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Emmett Till's Mother

Date: 09 03 1955
Description: Mamie Till Bradley, the mother of Emmett Till, weeps during his funeral. The 14-year-old Till was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi for alle...
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Bargaining Pointers

Date: 08 1965
Description: The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ...
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Agriculture Students

Date: 1915
Description: Group of male and female students seated at desks in the assembly room of the School of Agriculture.
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Agent Arresting Three Women and One Man

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: A state agent arrests three women and one man, a bartender, in Jeanne's Chateau. A sweeping raid was staged on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest ...
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At the Barrel In

Date: 07 01 1977
Description: Barrel In customers toasted the old owner, Margaret Udovc, and new owner, John Lacher, as the two shook hands.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: 1st and 2nd Residents

Date: 1926
Description: First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v...
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Neighborhood House Album: Women's Sewing Group

Date: 1926
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of women cutting patterns, sewing by hand and machine, pressing a garment, and checking the ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Women's Good Times Club

Date: 02 1934
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Good Times Club, a social club sponsored by the settlement house.
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Vel Phillips and Two Men

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Description: Vel Phillips chats with two men. She is wearing a dress, sweater and scarf and is holding papers and roses in one arm. The men are wearing plaid suits and ...
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Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter talk animatedly with a woman. This photograph is dedicated to Wilbur by Martha McSteen, the Dallas Regional Commissioner f...
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Governor Albert G. Schmedeman with Guests

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Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman sits at his desk for a group portrait. To his right stand three men wearing suits, and to Schmedeman's left stand five women wea...
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3rd Anniversary, Local #174 International Laundry Workers

Date: 09 03 1937
Description: View of a large group of people sitting and standing in a large room. A floral bouquet and a curtain divider are in the foreground.
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Graduation Barn Dance

Date: 06 09 1978
Description: Six children are standing and posing on a barn floor. Behind them in the hayloft, and sitting in the background near an open barn door are children and adu...

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